2-914-052 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Grotto, in Hawkstone Park, 1854. Tourist attraction in Shropshire. 'Out of a hanging wood of venerable beech-trees, crowned by a thicket of black firs, rises the celebrated "Grotto Rock," on whose caverns Sir Richard Hill expended much of his ingenuity. Its summit is reached by a long winding path in the steep wood, which conducts to the door of a dark passage in the rock, opening into a vaulted chamber incrusted with shells and minerals'. From "Illustrated London News", 1854.